FW: Tipping Towards Health Freedom PART I

[Guest guest]

I know that Butch has questioned the integrity of Rima Laibow and her

efforts, however, I believe this latest newsletter is worth reading for

yourselves. It's long, so I'll post in 3 sections.

 

Be Well,

Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com

http://www.aromaconnection.org

" Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. " Hausa Saying from

Nigeria

 

 

Part I

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Natural Solutions Foundation [dr.laibow]

Saturday, April 21, 2007 11:47 AM

samara

Tipping Towards Freedom

 

 

Natural Solutions Foundation

 

Please Forward Widely

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April 20, 200

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Health Freedom's Tipping Point

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" In sociology, a tipping point is ... the event of a previously rare

phenomenon becoming rapidly and dramatically more common ... by analogy with

the fact in physics that when a small amount of weight is added to a

balanced object, it can cause it to suddenly and completely topple....any

process in which beyond a certain point, the rate at which the process

proceeds increases dramatically. " 1

Well Done!

Congratulations are nearly in order! As of this writing,

you have sent 99,462 comments on the dangerous and potentially highly

destructive proposed FDA Guidance on the regulation of CAM practices and

products through www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133 & url_num=1 & url=

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.HealthFreedomUSA.org>

& url_num=1 & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.HealthFreedomUSA.org> !

 

If you are one of the 245,416 people who tried to send your comments

to the FDA through our action page but found it blocked, you will be happy

to know that the link has been cleared (again) and it is working now. If you

haven't done so yet, the time to send your comment really is now since the

public comment period ends on April 30, 2007.

The Natural Solutions Foundation was alerted to the fact

that the FDA was setting itself up to use a skewed interpretation of US law

to annihilate natural therapies and alternatives to drug use in the United

States by Ralph Fucetola, also known as " the Vitamin Lawyer " and we decided

to do something about it! At the time, no other group was focused on this

major threat to both your health and your health freedom but we understood

just how dangerous the FDA's " Guidance " can be to natural health and health

freedom. Although the Natural Solutions Foundation is requesting an

extension of the public comment period, we do not know if we will get it so

now is the time to take action

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133 & url_num=2 & url=

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsORG%2Fhealthfree

domusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185>

& url_num=2 & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsO

RG%2Fhealthfreedomusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185>

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133 & url_num=3 & url=

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsORG%2Fhealthfree

domusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185%2520>

& url_num=3 & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsO

RG%2Fhealthfreedomusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185%2520>

(http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/camp

aign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7185

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133 & url_num=4 & url=

http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsORG%2Fhealthfree

domusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185>

& url_num=4 & url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.democracyinaction.org%2Fdia%2ForganizationsO

RG%2Fhealthfreedomusa%2Fcampaign.jsp%3Fcampaign_KEY%3D7185>

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Why Is This Guidance A Major Threat to Your Health and Health

Freedom?

 

The FDA Guidance on the regulation of CAM practices and products is

so dangerous to your health and health freedom that it has allowed the

Natural Solutions Foundation to create a fire storm of protest and public

outcry against its many dangers. Nearly every health freedom advocacy group

has followed our example and taken up this issue and we are simply

delighted!

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Americans are outraged, as well they should be, since this document

has been carefully worded to lay the groundwork for what could well be the

final assault on non-pharmaceutical medicine in the United States and

beyond. Remember, the US, Canada and Mexico have entered into an agreement

called the " Trilateral Cooperation Charter " * which, as part of the

extra-Constitutional " North American Union " , merges the US FDA with its

Mexican and Canadian equivalents. That means that what happens here happens

in those countries as well. (Wave " good by " to Mexican cancer and chelation

clinics, by the way.)

Other countries around the world follow in the FDA's footsteps as

well, so the implications for the triumph of the " pharmaceutical model " (as

it is euphemistically called) in this document are, quite literally, earth

shaking.

If you ask the FDA, they will tell you that this Guidance is merely

a " restatement of current law so there is no cause for alarm " . This is

patently untrue. Consider the source: this Guidance was created by the FDA

Department of Policy and Planning, a fact which is, by in itself,

significant. The FDA Department of Policy and Planning is right at the top

of the FDA structure and, like the rest of the FDA, is focused on what

benefits their clients, Big Pharma, Big Biotech and the other multinational

industries that pay the FDA huge fees and line the pockets of so many FDA

employees as well with stocks " research grants " , consulting contracts and

other financial goodies.

 

But consider what Ralph Fucetola, (www.Vitaminlawyer.com

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133

<http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=329739133 & url_num=5 & url=

htp%3A%2F%2Fwww.Vitaminlawyer.com>

& url_num=5 & url=htp%3A%2F%2Fwww.Vitaminlawyer.com> ) a regulatory lawyer

with decades of experience in dealing with the FDA, has to say:

" As a regulatory lawyer, my experience is that FDA

doesn't just issue guidances for no reason... the usual reason is to prepare

to ratchet up enforcement. I note the the anti-CAM guidance was proposed by

the Planning and Policy division of FDA -- people who are at the center of

FDA management. This is not just 'merely' a restatement of the existing law.

It is a careful bureaucratic maneuver to set up the next step in integrating

alternatives into Big Pharma. "

 

Just look at the FDA's record. Vicious attacks on natural options

and irresponsible regulatory permissiveness for drugs with little benefit

and huge dangers characterize the FDA's recent history. Hundreds of

thousands of people a year die needlessly from wildly dangerous approved

pharmaceuticals because of FDA failure to regulate psychiatric and other

drugs for safety. Informed consent for experiments on

 

* Prisoners

* Civilian populations (the FDA and military need only give

local police forces 30 notice of any tests to be secretly conducted on US

civilians)

* Children in foster care